Omavs.com wrote:“The NCHC provides the toughest test in college hockey each night, and we saw that this year with two NCHC teams, Denver and Minnesota Duluth, in the national championship game,” said associate athletic director Mike Kemp who oversees hockey. “That will be no different next season. We will play 14 conference games against teams that made the NCAA tournament and finished the season in the top 10.

“Our non-conference schedule features three more teams who also made the tournament so there will be no shortage of top-notch competition for us this upcoming season.”

omavs.com wrote:OMAHA, Neb. – Omaha hockey head coach Mike Gabinet announced today at senior Joel Messner will serve as the team's captain for the 2017-18 season while classmate Tyler Vesel will serve as alternate captain.

"Both players have shown exceptional leadership during their UNO careers, and we are extremely fortunate to have them as our leaders for the upcoming season," said Gabinet. "We expect to get very good leadership from our entire senior class, and that will be the foundation for our team this year."

Omaha Athletics announced the television schedule for hockey today. It includes three games to be broadcast statewide by NET Television.

NET will cover the Mavericks' home games against Minnesota Duluth on Friday, Dec. 8, against Miami on Friday, Jan. 12 and against Western Michigan on Friday, Jan. 26. The games against UMD and Miami also will be available on FCS.

The Mavericks will appear on Fox Sports North for their game at St. Cloud State on Friday, Feb. 2. The game will be shown tape delayed later that night on FCS.

The Mavericks will appear on CBSSN on Friday, Jan. 5 at North Dakota and at home on Friday, Feb. 16 against UND.

Its been nice non-conference season for UNO. I was hoping to see them sweep ASU at home but going on the road and getting wins at both Lowell and Notre Dame (Both ranked in the top 5 at some point this season) was good to see. Hopefully they can use this weekend off and tune up for conference play. I think they bar is fairly high for this season. They have been fun to watch in person and fun to listen to on the radio.

Third straight home sweep since the Christmas break for the Mavs as they take care of #12 Western Michigan, but the end of the season gets harder. Mavs go to #5 St. Cloud St., host #11 North Dakota and Clorado College, before going to #9 Minnesota Duluth. Then we have the NCHC Frozen Faceoff. The latest Bracketology has six NCHC teams making the National Tournament: St Cloud St., Denver, Western Michigan, Minnesota Duluth, North Dakota and Omaha. Put on your seat belts, this will be a heck of a drive.

I have a serious question though, is there a reason why hockey tickets are so much more expensive than Creighton basketball tickets? I sit in the upper bowl for Creighton games and the face value ranges from $12-20 for games. It seems like hockey is ranges from $20-35 for upper bowl seats.